Geography
What are Mountains?
Hawthorn enjoyed a lesson of discovering on Friday afternoon. We went outside for our Geography lesson. We worked with a partner to read the information on mountains which helped us to answer lots of questions.
Design Technology
Papier-mâché Mountains
Last week we created prototypes and designs for our Mountain models. Today was the fun part! We showed some fantastic team work as we started to create our mountain structures using cups and Papier- Mache although I think there was more glue on some of our hands than there was Read more…
Geography
A trip to see the River Roch
Year 4 had a fantastic time this afternoon as we went down to the River Roch in Queen’s Park. The children spotted meanders and signs of erosion, transportation and deposition. They were amazing at explaining what each meant. They noticed signs of pollution and discussed why this was bad for Read more…
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Shared Learning and Lunch
Year 4 Hawthorn loved having their Parents, Grandparents and Godparents join our English lessons today! We were given some boring sentences to edit and improve. We added fronted adverbials, adverbs, adjectives, similes and interesting verbs. The sentences created were very impressive. We finished the morning with a shared lunch.
Design Technology
Mountain Designs
Today we were put into groups and each group were given a different picture of a Mountain Range. During this half term, we are going to be creating models of our Mountain range. Today we created prototypes of our structures and made annotated sketches of our designs.
French
As-tu un animal?
Wow! Last week Hawthorn spoke in French to ask others if they had any pets and they were also able to reply in French, they used the information that they gathered to create a bar model. This week the children learnt how to say what pet they have and also Read more…
Geography
The River Roch
Year 4 Hawthorn have been investigating the River Roch. First we looked at maps of Rochdale and highlighted where the River Roch flows. Next we looked through some resources about the river. These included looking at Roman coins found in the river, a protected plant species that grows there and Read more…
Mathematics
“Work-At-It” Wiz
Sometimes we can find some lessons challenging, but in Year 4 we know it is important to have the right mindset. Our class rabbit called ‘Work- at- it’ Wiz has a growth mindset; he believes that if you put in effort, you can get better at everything. He tries hard Read more…
Reading
‘ Reading is like opening a door to a magical world’- Year 4 child.
On Friday, Year 4 Hawthorn, had a fantastic time at the library. We were so excited to pick books to take back to school. Once back at school, we enjoyed sitting in our new reading corner and reading our new books. During English lessons, we have been writing letters to Read more…
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All about me
Year 4 Hawthorn have been creating ‘All about me” sheets to send to Year 4 pupils at Ashfield Valley primary school. In November we will be going to the M6 theatre to meet them and we are very